This residency is a partnership between the Glasgow-based radio art collective Radiophrenia and the Rotterdam-based arts organisation WORM.

The first Radiophrenia radio art residency at WORM was back in 2020 with the artist Cucina Povera and since then Helena Celle, Jim Colquhoun & Jamie McNeill, Murray Collier & Hannan Jones have all spent time tinkering in in WORM’s electronic music studio – with the Radiophrenia team being most recent to spend time working there. In recent years Radiophrenia have hosted Rotterdam based artists Antrianna Moutoula and Ash Kilmartin in Glasgow so all involved are excited to be able to welcome Radio WORM regular Viana Afoumou (AKA vixnde) to undertake a one-week residency at Cove Park. The work that results from this production time will be aired in Radiophrenia’s September broadcasts.

Having been told since a teenager that her voice could sooth a stallion in heat, vixnde decided to take her talents seriously and to use them for the common good. In “Le Téléphone Rose”, your calls and voice messages (0909 – 7777 777, €0,15/minute) become an integral part of the radio show – streamed on Radio WORM and Operator Radio, two Rotterdam-based radio stations. Le Téléphone Rose is also a research project, questioning how we connect to each other in the midst of social media. What if we talked to someone without knowing how they present themselves through the screen?

*vixnde: pronounced viande [vjɑ̃d], meaning “meat” in French is the product of a lifetime by Brussels-born singer-songwriter Viana Afoumou. This neologism and analogy crystallises the discrepancies she experiences as a female artist; having realized that, to be a part of the music industry, she would have to brand, package and sell herself, all-the-while staying “authentic” and presenting original work. She decided to play with these contradictions, by becoming her own product. Her genre, Raw Pop, is a wink to the extreme categorisation of music, a pun to raw meat, and a reference to her sound.